An el­der­ly man and an el­der­ly woman with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions, are the lat­est vic­tims of COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health’s lat­est up­date.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry, these lat­est deaths bring the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 53.

Al­so, in its clin­i­cal up­date for this morn­ing, Sun­day 13 Sep­tem­ber 2020, the Min­istry re­ports:

●  Twen­ty-six (26) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19, the re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 3rd to Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

●  The to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es, na­tion­al­ly, is now 2,194.

●  Six (6) per­sons have been dis­charged from health fa­cil­i­ties.

●  111 COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tients are still in hos­pi­tal.

●  128 COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tients are still in step-down fa­cil­i­ties.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) UP­DATE #456

Port-of-Spain, Sep­tem­ber 13th, 2020: As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.

The pop­u­la­tion is re­mind­ed to source your in­for­ma­tion on­ly from of­fi­cial sources, such as the Min­istry of Health.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sun­day 13th Sep­tem­ber, 2020:

● Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 26,724

● Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 23,681

● Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 3,043

● Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 3,019

● To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 2,194

● Num­ber of deaths 53

● Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 772

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

● The Min­istry of Health re­grets to in­form the pub­lic that there are two ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths. The per­sons are an el­der­ly male and an el­der­ly fe­male, both with co-mor­bidi­ties. This brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 53.

● Twen­ty-six (26) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19. The twen­ty-six (26) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed above show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 3rd to Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

● Six (6) per­sons have been dis­charged.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (111)

One thou­sand, nine hun­dred and twen­ty-nine (1,929) pa­tients have been home iso­lat­ed un­der the con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing of the re­spec­tive Coun­ty Med­ical Of­fi­cer Health (CMOH) of­fices.

Twen­ty-six (26) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion at the dis­cre­tion of the CMOHs.

● Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty = 78 [2 (ICU); 5 (HDU)]

● Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal = 29

● Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal = 4

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – (128)

● Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande = 0

● Ba­lan­dra = 0

● Tacarigua = 0

● UWI, Debe = 7

● UWI, Cana­da Hall = 50

● UWI, Free­dom Hall = 71

● NA­PA = 0

In­ten­sive Care Units (ICUs) are hos­pi­tal wards that pro­vide treat­ment for peo­ple who are very ill. They are staffed with health care pro­fes­sion­als who are trained in ICU treat­ment and the use of so­phis­ti­cat­ed mon­i­tor­ing equip­ment.

High De­pen­den­cy Units (HDUs) are wards for peo­ple who need more ob­ser­va­tion, treat­ment and nurs­ing care than is pos­si­ble in a gen­er­al ward but slight­ly less than that giv­en in an In­ten­sive Care Unit.

An Am­bu­la­to­ry Pa­tient is able to walk about and is not bedrid­den.

If you or a loved one de­vel­ops symp­toms of COVID-19, please call the hot­line 877-WELL or 800-WELL (9355) for fur­ther guid­ance.

If the per­son is se­vere­ly ill, call the 811 (emer­gency hot­line) or call ahead to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of your near­est hos­pi­tal for help and go in im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic via its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels such as:

● The Min­istry of Health’s web­site (health.gov.tt);

● The Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions web­sites (moc.gov.tt and news.gov.tt); and

● The rel­e­vant so­cial me­dia pages of these en­ti­ties (Face­book, Twit­ter and In­sta­gram).

Please note:

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that they must ad­here to the ‘New Nor­mal’ rec­om­men­da­tions and take the fol­low­ing per­son­al health mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

● Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

● Keep your dis­tance from oth­ers (6 feet)

● Stay home if you are ill

● Clean then sani­tise sur­faces (e.g. table­tops, door knobs and cell phones)

● Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ters or use an al­co­hol-based hand sani­tis­er

● Cough in­to a tis­sue or in­to the cook of your el­bow

● Avoid touch­ing your face